Depending on the mobo, Asus has at least 2 sensors: CPU socket & board ambient
(case). Newer boards have additional sensors for north bridge and headers for wired
thermoisters. There is no reference and MBM is no longer being developed. You can
still search their forums AFAIK to see what others with your board get.
Good rule would be you don't want to be anywhere near 73C @ the cpu diode or mobo
socket sensors and case should be <32C. Of course you also need to be sure you're
getting real readings. Loading Asus Probe would show you the Asus calibrated readings
to compare to MBM or Everest readings, but still you may have to look at values being
relative and just use them to see how much hotter an OC setup is vs. normal.
Winterlight wrote:
My 3.06 Xeons have Thermal Spec of 73C. I don't want to exceed that when
overclocking...right?
How do you know what your Motherboard temp should be? There is no
reference to it in my ASUS manual. MBM shows this as the case temp, but
my actual case, measured by a wired probe and suspended in the case, is
half of what my MBM case temp is, which they take off the motherboard.
Thanks.
